10. Katydid
Photo 10- Many insects are camouflaged to look like leaves, and this katydid is especially hard to see in a forest. Notice the dark spots on its leaf-green body. These look very much like the fungus-spots on diseased leaves.
11. Leaf hopper
Photo 11- This leafhopper on a palm fruit cluster interested us because of his blue body with yellow cross-bands. I don’t know why he is blue. it could be that he tastes bad and this pattern of colors is a warning to predators.
Photos 12- 17 show some of the creatures of the night. Different species are active after dark, compared with day-time.
12. Tree Frog
Photo 12- This is one of the smaller treefrog species, less than two inches long. There were many frogs at a small pond, singing their mating and territorial songs. This small male made a loud noise, using a pouch under his chin to increase the loudness of his song. Each kind of frog, each species, has its own special song, which onlt the males sing. The females listen very carefully to identify and locate a mate. If you know your frog songs, you can tell what species are nearby, just as female frogs do.
13. Mating
Photo 13- These two frogs are staying together so that he can fertilize her eggs when she lays them. Some treefrogs lay their eggs in ponds, but many lay their eggs on leaves above ponds. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the pond below, where they swim, feed, and grow until they metamorphose into adult frogs.